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decorated with three scroll-framed cartouches. The first depicting the Franciscan insignia: two crossed hands nailed to a cross bearing the INRI motto; the second representing the five Christ wounds known for being used by the Franciscans and a third undecorated cartouche.<br \/>\r\nAt the base and hip decorated with frieze depicting lotus that extends to the hip as leaves separated by trefoils. Silver cover of later date with engraved decoration representing similar floral motifs.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe Franciscan Order was founded in 1210 by Saint Francis of Assisi and the first monastery in Portugal was founded in 1224.<br \/>\r\nThe missionary mission of the order started in the 16th century and by 1579 the order settles down in Macau where the Saint Francis monastery and the Church of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos were founded in 1580.<br \/>\r\nThe rare bottle now offered for sale dates from the late 17th, early 18th century and was a commission by a Franciscan monastery, probably for one of its Oriental possessions.<br \/>\r\nThe Franciscan insignia depicts, in blue, two crossed arms with one wound at the hand once its nailed to the Cross.The naked arm belongs to Jesus Christ and the covered one to a Saint patron of the poor.The cross bears the INRI motto: Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews.<br \/>\r\nSaint Francis of Assisi at the end of his life called his brothers in order to bless them using the traditional gesture of crossing arms; the gesture was adopted as symbol of the order.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nSimilar examples:<br \/>\r\nAbel Lacerda Collection<br \/>\r\nNational Museum of Ancient Art","additional_info":[{"title":"Additional Information","text":"Bibliography: <br \/>\r\nA. Varela Santos - Portugal na Porcelana da China , 500 Anos de Comercio, p\u00e1g 572 a 575<br \/>\r\nMichel Beurdeley  Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, pag. 144 Nuno de Castro - A Porcelana Chinesa no tempo do Imp\u00e9rio  Portugal \/ Brasil, p 360<br \/>\r\nNunodeCastro APorcelanaChinesaeosBras\u00f5esdoImp\u00e9rio,pag.45 Reflexos  S\u00edmbolos e Imagens do Cristianismo na Porcelana Chinesa, p\u00e1g 111 e 112<br \/>\r\nA. M. Moreira  Dicion\u00e1rio da Hist\u00f3ria Religiosa de Portugal de Carlos Azevedo, p\u00e1g 273 a 280"}],"tags":"Porcelain","auction_session":"2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lot\/29298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lot"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lot"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}